Ariel Constantini > Ariel's Quotes

“When blame and self-judgement are transformed, healed, and cease to be, we have reawakened without the myth, the mythos, of separation. We are One.”
― Wendy E. Slater, Into the Hearth, Poems-Volume 14

“Lieutenant Belguzar? Did you hear me?”
“No, sir. Sorry. Could you repeat your question?”
“What happened on the second of April? I want every detail; everything you were contemplating.”
― Behcet Kaya, Murder on the Naval Base

“Leadership begins and ends with relationships”
― Richard Polak, Work Smart Now: How to Jump Start Productivity, Empower Employees, and Achieve More

“You can’t save anyone who wouldn’t save themselves without you. It’s the
hardest lesson to learn in life, take it from me.”
― Marc Jampole

“Komorov thought he was torturing us. But we were escaping into a stillness within ourselves. We found strength there.”
― Ruta Sepetys, Between Shades of Gray

“I am, as far as I can tell, about a month behind Lord Byron. In every town we stop at we discover innkeepers, postillions, officials, burghers, potboys, and all kinds and sorts of ladies whose brains still seem somewhat deranged from their brief exposure to his lordship. And though my companions are careful to tell people that I am that dreadful being, an English magician, I am clearly nothing in comparison to an English poet and everywhere I go I enjoy the reputation- quite new to me, I assure you- of the quiet, good Englishman, who makes no noise and is no trouble to any one...”
― Susanna Clarke, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell

“I urge you to engrave this on the template of your memories: there are thousands of diseases in this world, but Medical Science only has an empirical cure for twenty-six of them. The rest is … guesswork.”
― Erich Segal, Doctors

“Simplify, simplify.”
― Henry David Thoreau

“It made her think that it was curious how much nicer a person looked when he smiled. She had not thought of it before.”
― Frances Hodgson Burnett, Secret Garden

“… there is something very strange and childish in the way grown-ups feel about their clocks—in that respect, I was never a child. I am willing to agree that the clock is probably the most remarkable thing that grown-ups ever produced. Grown-ups have it in them to be creative, and sometimes, with the help of ambition, hard work, and a bit of luck they actually are, but being grown-ups, they have no sooner created some epoch-making invention than they become a slave to it.”
― Günter Grass